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Locally common alongside the Clarence River from the Jacks Pass intersection to Lake Tennyson. Probably further down as well but that area was not visited. Somewhat different form to the coastal one. Growing with Gunnera densiflora (last photograph) and Hydrocotyle hydrophila.

The water was so high in the lake that there were fish swimming over our dock.

I thought there might be a second species, but now I think I'm just seeing ones where the angle is such that the golden marks (head, nostrils, base of dorsal) are not reflecting the light.

Muddy tidal marsh. Nice large healthy individual. Reminder to anyone who goes looking for scouleri: Lower stem leaves are the name of the game. Oblong-oblanceolate and shallowly tapering to the petiole. E. guttata also possesses petioles when it grows in tidal marshes (the habitat of E. scouleri), but the blunter leaves cut off to the petioles at a very sharp angle. The smaller upper stem leaves of both species have no petiole can't be used to ID. Most estuarine Erythranthe observations (of both guttata and scouleri) in BC/WA/CA lack photos of the lower stem leaves, mostly because of the (very understandable) assumption that the plants are just E. guttata and not needing more than just a quick photo of the upper plant and flowers. Project compiling observations of estuarine tidal marsh Erythranthe: Estuarine Monkeyflowers